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Necessity of addressing motivations for cannabis use to guide research

Ziva D. CooperUCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Bryon AdinoffDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USAView further author information
Pages 547-550 | Published online: 22 Nov 2019

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